13th September 2008    MUSIC FESTIVAL, CHAPTER ARTS CENTRE, CANTON, CARDIFF.

        Hosted by Pulse Wholefoods, details to follow.

31st May - 1st June 2008    BRAGOD, CARLINGFORD CELTIC MUSIC FESTIVAL, CO. LOUTH,                  

                                              IRELAND.

        Concert of Irish, Welsh and Breton music and workshop on Music of the Spheres.

17th April 2008    LAUNCH OF ‘ENCOURAGEMENT’, NORWEGIAN CHURCH, CARDIFF BAY

        “Encouragement”, Frankie Armstrong’s new CD of ballads, featuring Robert Evans on the crwth.

31st March 2008    ‘THE HOWL OF ARCADIA’, A NEW OPERA BY SIMON THORNE, GIVING

        VOICE FESTIVAL, ABERYSTWYTH.   

19th - 20th March  2008    ‘THE HOWL OF ARCADIA’, FIRST PERFORMANCE OF A NEW OPERA        

       BY SIMON THORNE, SHERMAN THEATRE, CARDIFF.

18th February 2008    BRAGOD, DOMESTIC VIOLINS & PWNGK

       Private lecture on ‘The Medieval Universe’ and concert.

November 2007    BRAGOD, TOUR OF MEXICO.

    Concerts and workshops for the University of Quintana Roo, Cozumel and at Universidad del Caribe, Puerto Juarez, Cancun.

27th - 28th October 2007     BRAGOD, WEDDING, LOCHHGOILHEAD, ARGYLL, SCOTLAND.

28th September    BRAGOD, WALES MILLENNIUM CENTRE, FOYER CONCERT, 1.00 P.M.

30th - 31st August 2007    BRAGOD, WALES FIDDLE FESTIVAL, STACKPOLE, PEMBROKESHIRE.

    Lecture - ‘The Crwth in Context’ and Concert - ‘Crwth, Lyre and Voice’

22nd July 2007    PWNGK, WALES MILLENNIUM CENTRE, FOYER CONCERT, 1.00 P.M.    

    Welsh fiddlers, Paul Hopkins and Bob Evans, play tunes from Wales accompanied on the bouzouki by Michael Price. 

24th - 28th May 2007    D.A.S.H. CARNIVAL, LUDLOW, SHROPSHIRE.

    Preparing the words, music, movement and costumes, with  other artistes and a community group of mixed abilities and ages,

    for this annual event.

3rd April 2007    ACOUSTIC TUESDAY CLUB, SOUTH RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTRE,

BRUNEL STREET CARDIFF, CF11 6ES.

    Inaugural event, singing and instrumental music from guest performers, hosted monthly by Frankie Armstrong, Darien

    Pritchard, Robert Evans and Mary-Anne Roberts.

17th March    THE PAX, THORPE ARCH, WETHERBY, YORKSHIRE.

    St Patick’s Day Celebration

23rd January 2006    BRAGOD CONCERT, DARTINGTON COLLEGE OF ARTS

1st January 2007    THE PAX, THORPE ARCH, WETHERBY, YORKSHIRE.

    New Year Celebration

28th October 2006    PWNGK, WALES MILLENNIUM CENTRE, FOYER CONCERT, 1.00 P.M.

    Bob Evans and Paul Hopkins (fiddles), and Michael Price (bouzouki), play old Welsh and Irish

    dance-tunes and more.

2nd - 6th October 2006    CALYPSO COLLAPSO

   A project for D. A. S. H., Shropshire. Preparing the words and music for the 2007 D. A. S. H. Carnival.

29th September 2006    BRAGOD, WALES MILLENNIUM CENTRE, FOYER CONCERT, 1.00 P.M.

    Bragod perform Ystorya Trystan (The Welsh Tristan Story) using a text prepared by Dr. Dafydd Johnston. Robert Evans and

    Mary-Anne Roberts have set this largely 12th century text to newly-composed music following the compositional principles

    of the time using the crwth, a bowed lyre with a fingerboard. The drama is in the Menippean form: prose with verse, and has

    all the signs that it was meant to be sung. Bragod is the first ensemble to perform Ystorya Trystan since the middle ages.

    This performance comes a day or two before the performance of Wagner's Tristan and Isolde on the Wales Millennium

    Centre's main stage.

   

    Bragod will also perform stanzas from Llyfr Aneirin, The Book of Aneirin, using the 6th century North-European lyre played

    with a plectrum.

31st August 2006 18.32    BRAGOD, BBC RADIO WALES, 93-96 and 104FM, 882 and 657MW

    In 'The Traditional Music of Wales', Huw Williams interviews Bragod on the crwth, and medieval Welsh music and poetry.

12th August 2006    RIVERSIDE FESTIVAL, DESPENSER GARDENS, CARDIFF

    Fiddlers, Paul Hopkins and Bob Evans and bouzouki-player, Michael Price, perform as the Bob Evans Trio. The Bob Evans

    Trio plays a variety of music from Wales and Ireland.

4th August 2006    FOYER CONCERT AT THE WALES MILLENIUM CENTRE, 1.00 P.M.

    Mary-Anne Roberts (voice), is joined by old style string-band, Domestic Violins: Robert Evans and Paul Hopkins (fiddles)

    and Michael Price (cuatro), for a concert of calypso and folk songs from her native Trinidad.

26th - 29th June    WORKSHOPS FOR SCHOOLS ON THE ISLE OF WIGHT

    Stories of the origin of music and musical instruments, the art of memory and the structure of the medieval universe with

    songs and music from Wales and Trinidad. Children were introduced to Sudanese and European lyres, the crwth, the fiddle,    

    and the harmonic series and participated in songs and movement.

4th June 2006    WORKSHOP AT QUEENS HALL, NARBERTH

    A workshop given in collaboration with Pembrokeshire College. Young adult students participated in stories, moving and

    breathing, singing, dancing and an introduction to 'The Music of the Spheres'.

2nd - 11th May 2006    COLLABORATION WITH ST. DAVID'S HALL AND CINETIG

    Bragod worked at St. Mary the Virgin Church in Wales Primary School with school-children and staff, preparing the music

    and writing the words which later formed the sound-track for an animated film made by another class at the school. The

    children were introduced to the harmonic series, stories from the Ancient world and the Caribbean and taken on a tour of the

    medieval universe using an impressive model which Bragod commissioned from the Cardiff sculptor, Cindy Ward. Children

    were inspired by a visit to Riverside Community Garden Allottment Project in keeping with the project's theme, 'Grow Your

    Own'.

6th April 2006    VOICE, MOVEMENT, MUSIC AND ARCHETYPE WORKSHOP

    Robert Evans and Mary-Anne Roberts will guide you through their 7-year experiment, encompassing pitting the harmonics of

    the voice against the crwth and an intensely physical, communal exploration of the Trinidad carnival form, leading to a

    challenging, visceral sound-world.

    International Festival of the Voice, Centre for Performance Research.

    Parry Williams Building, Penglais Campus, Aberystwyth.

5th April 2006   CONCERT, GIVING VOICE FESTIVAL, ABERYSTWYTH

    Concert of historically-informed, medieval Welsh bardic poetry and music accompanied by the crwth, a bowed lyre with a,     

    and the 6th century North-European lyre played with a plectrum.

    International Festival of the Voice, Centre for Performance Research.

    Parry Williams Building, Penglais Campus, Aberystwyth.

December 2005    LYRE, CRWTH, SINGING AND SOUND EFFECTS

   

    Theatre production: Plas Drycin by Gwyneth Glyn, staged by Theatre Genedlaethol Cymru (National Theatre of Wales)

14th August 2005    PERFORMANCE AT KELLS

    The Irish part of the 'Strata' exhibition will take place at the ruined abbey at Kells. Bragod gave a 30 minute performance of

    the newly-written, long poem, 'A Gate at Ystrad Fflur' by Cecile Johnson-Sloiz. The setting of the words and composition of

    the  music are Bragod's response to a commission by Cecile Johnson Soliz.

25th June 2005    ST. MICHAEL'S CHURCH, Lower Machen, Near Caerphilly

  

    Lower Machen Festival

    N.B. Recital starts at 10.00 p.m.

    Box Office 08700 13 1812

    http://www.lowermachenfestival.org.uk

24th - 25th June 2005    SPECIALIST SYMPOSIUM ON THE ROBERT AP HUW MANUSCRIPT

    The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, in collaboration with the Centre for Advanced Welsh Musical Studies,

    University of Wales, Bangor. Robert Evans read a paper, 'Lyre and Crwth' and Bragod demonstrated the fruits of their

    experimental work.

19th June 2005    ABBEY CHAPEL, STRATA FLORIDA

     Commissioned as part of an art work by Cecile Johnson Soliz, Bragod will give the first performance of 'The Gate at Ystrad

     Fflur' at the Chapel, Ystrad Fflur, North Cardiganshire. This is the first of a two-part exhibition of artists working in Wales

     and Ireland titled,'Strata', curated by Tim Davies and Ann Mulrooney.

    Poem: Cecile Johnson Soliz.

    Music composed by Robert Evans and Mary-Anne Roberts in response to a commission by Cecile Johnson Soliz.

14th May 2005    THORNHILL COMMUNITY CENTRE, Cwmbran

    Irish / Welsh Weekend, Torfaen Traditional Music Fiddle Festival

    7.30 p.m. Concert: Bragod and Tom Mc Conville

    TorfaenTraditionalMusic@webster.uk.net

4th October 2004    BRAGOD ON LATE JUNCTION

    Verity Sharp plays music performed by Bragod on 'Late Junction',

    BBC Radio 3, in the week beginning 4 October.

    You can read Verity Sharp's article on Bragod

    in BBC Music Magazine, October 2004